Jaime Rodriguez Calderon

Jaime Rodriguez Calderon (28 December 1957-) was Governor of Nuevo Leon from 4 October 2015 to 31 December 2017 (succeeding Rodrigo Medina de la Cruz and preceding Manuel Florentino Gonzalez Flores) and from 2 July 2018 (succeeding Gonzalez Flores). A former PRI member, he became an independent in 2014.

Biography
Jaime Rodriguez Calderon was born in Galeana, Nuevo Leon, Mexico in 1957. He became a federal deputy in 1992, a local MP in 1997, and Mayor of Garcia. He fought and reduced Los Zetas' crime in his municipality, and he invested in education and social development programs. In 2015, he became Governor of Nuevo Leon as an independent, having left the Institutional Revolutionary Party a year earlier. In 2018, he ran for President as an independent, and he proposed to bring back the death penalty for drug traffickers, hijackers, infanticides, and serial killers. He won only 5% of the vote, and he returned to his governorship on 2 July 2018.